Basic wrapper to return datasets from the Quandl website as Pandas dataframe objects with a timeseries index, or as a numpy array. This allows interactive manipulation of the results via IPython or storage of the datasets using Pandas I/O functions. You will need a familarity with Pandas (http://pandas.pydata.org/) to get the most out of this.
An example of creating a pandas time series for IBM stock data, with a weekly frequency
import Quandl
data = Quandl.get("GOOG/NYSE_IBM",frequency="weekly")
data.head()
will output
No authentication tokens found,usage will be limited
Returning Dataframe for GOOG/NYSE_IBM
Open High Low Close Volume
Date
2013-03-28 209.83 213.44 209.74 213.30 3752999
2013-03-15 215.38 215.90 213.41 214.92 7937244
2013-03-08 209.85 210.74 209.43 210.38 3700986
2013-03-01 200.65 202.94 199.36 202.91 3309434
2013-02-22 199.23 201.09 198.84 201.09 3107976
Usage is simple and mirrors the functionality found at http://www.quandl.com/api
A request with a full list of options would be the following.
import Quandl
data = Quandl.get('PRAGUESE/PX',authtoken='xxxxxx',startdate='2001-01-01',enddate='2010-01-01',frequency='annual',transformation = 'rdiff',rows='4',formats='numpy')
All options beyond specifying the dataset (PRAUGESE/PX) are optional,though it is helpful to specify an authtoken at least once to increase download limits, it should be cached after that.
you can then view the dataframe with:
data.head()
See the pandas documentation for a wealth of options on data manipulation.
Authtokens are saved as pickled files in the local directory so it is unnecessary to enter them more than once, unless you change your working directory.To replace simply save the new token or delete authtoken.p.
Quarterly normalized crude oil prices since 2005, only returning first 4 values.
import Quandl
data = Quandl.get("IMF/POILAPSP_INDEX",frequency="quarterly",startdate="2005",transformation = "normalize",rows="4")
data.head()
returns:
No authentication tokens found,usage will be limited
Returning Dataframe for IMF/POILAPSP_INDEX
Price
Date
2013-02-28 212.792283
2012-12-31 200.073398
2012-09-30 210.212855
2012-06-30 179.322638
The IPython notebook is an excellent python environment for interactive data work. Spyder is also a superb IDE for analysis and more numerical work.
I would suggest downloading the data in raw format in the highest frequency possible and preforming any data manipulation in pandas itself. See the following:http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/dev/timeseries.html
Please send any questions, comments, or any other inquires about this package to [email protected]
Pandas https://code.google.com/p/pandas/
dateutil (should be installed as part of pandas) http://labix.org/python-dateutil